T&T: Confiscating laptops

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From: "C. Marin Faure" <cmfaure at earthlink.net>
Subject: T&T:  Confiscating laptops
To: trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com

>I'm wondering if list members are actually experiencing equipment 
seizure, or massive copying of data from boat devices?..... What say 
the list?
 
>snip<


If you're involved in some sort of illegal activity then, yeah, it's 
a bummer they can take your laptop and look at the files.  If you're 
not then it's almost certain that nobody is gonna give a hoot in hell 
about your laptop, your phone, or your library card.

____________________
C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington
 
FWIW  Sadly, history has shown that governments rarely stop with
the "guilty".
 
                                                                             
       Capt. Bill